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And we must remember that what comes from the supernals does
not enter into the recipients as it left the source; fire, for
instance, will be duller; the loving instinct will degenerate and
issue in ugly forms of the passion; the vital energy in a subject
not so balanced as to display the mean of manly courage, will
come out as either ferocity or faint-heartedness; and ambition...
in love...; and the instinct towards good sets up the pursuit of
semblant beauty; intellectual power at its lowest produces the
extreme of wickedness, for wickedness is a miscalculating effort
towards Intelligence.
Any such quality, modified at best from its supreme form,
deteriorates again within itself: things of any kind that
approach from above, altered by merely leaving their source
change further still by their blending with bodies, with Matter,
with each other.
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